“We just talked to the president, he shared with us what the administration has done, which they couldn’t share with us before, so we appreciate that, you know, the things they tried, and we thanked him but we begged that they might consider other ways of dealing such that Steven and the others might be spared,,” said Diane Foley.

The killer’s British sounding accent has raised concerns in the UK about its own home-grown jihadists. So much so that Prime Minister David Cameron cut short his summer holiday and returned to lead the government’s response to the atrocity.

“ We have not identified the individual responsible on the video but from what we’ve seen it looks like a British citizen. Now this is deeply shocking, but we know that far too many British citizens have travelled to Iraq and traveled to Syria to take part in extremism and violence,” Cameron said.

The concern is that an established IS could launch international terrorist attacks with its British members bring jihad back on to home territory.

Some people just never learn. The U.S. Military may be good in certain areas, but hostage recovery doesn't seem to be one of those. If one thing sticks out, it's that the idiots who come up with the involvement in these civil wars, are the ones who escape responsibility when things go bad.